Oops, Everything Is Alive: Leodrune Press on Ecology, Magic, and Paying Attention

This episode begins with a remembrance of Gordon White, whose work inspired the name The Campfire’s Edge and who helped give language to the idea that humans belong in a strange, haunted, more-than-human cosmos.

Then we’re joined by Sylvia and Tristan Eden, the husband-and-wife team behind Leodrune Press. From their home in the Pacific Northwest, they write and illustrate books exploring ecology, folklore, mythology, and the experience of encountering a world that may be much stranger, and much more alive, than we usually admit.

We talk about the modern search for re-enchantment, why so many people are finding their way to old ideas through forests instead of books, the weird things that happen when you spend enough time outdoors, and why taking animism seriously is both beautiful and deeply inconvenient.

Also discussed: climate grief, hunting, plant intelligence, ancestral landscapes, magical correspondences, UFOs and high strangeness, why learning the names of things matters, and the possibility that there may occasionally be a little guy in the rock.

Probably not.

Probably.

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